One backcountry skier dead, another rescued near Vail
A man who got lost in the woods east of the Vail ski area Monday was rescued by searchers, but the body of a friend who had gone backcountry skiing with him was found in the same area.
The dead man was identified as Samuel Failla, 24, of New Jersey.
The first man called 911 about 7 p.m. Monday to report that he had fallen off of a trail and had spent several hours trying to hike out. The Vail Mountain Rescue Group and the Vail Ski Patrol found the man and brought him to safety.
But the man, whom police are not yet naming, didn’t tell rescuers that he had been accompanied by a friend. Authorities said he later told them that he assumed his friend had gotten out of the woods on his own.
Two deputies hug at the scene of an officer-involved shooting that left at least one El Paso County sheriff’s deputy dead Monday, Feb. 5, 2018, at an apartment complex in Colorado Springs. (Nadav Soroker, The Gazette)
Two deputies hug at the scene of an officer-involved shooting that left at least one El Paso County Sheriffâs deputy dead Monday, Feb. 5, 2018, at an aparment complex in Colorado Springs, Colo. (The Gazette, Nadav Soroker)
